"I think that we were given the Scriptures, not so that we could prove that we were right about everything-it was to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing."

"I'm a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity to me, but because there were people who were willing to be nuts and bolts."

"The love of God is incarnated-becomes manifest-in the love we experience in one another. It is God's love with skin on it."

"Artists like Money could only try to copy God's color scheme, but their pastels pale next to the real thing."

"'The thing that's cool about music is how unnecessary it is. Of all things, music is the most frivolous and the most useless. You can't eat it, you can't drive it, you can't live in it, you can't wear it. But your life wouldn't be worth much without it.' Music may be unnecessary in that sense, but it is necessary for the soul. Music is love in search of sounds and words, and we need it."

"Sometimes it's hard to believe that life is good. It's not always pleasant, but life is a great gift, and your job is to live it the best you can. Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living." (Rich Mullins)

“Even if [what you do] is a flop, tomorrow morning the sun’s gonna come up just the same. Even if it’s a flop, tomorrow evening it’s gonna get darker and darker, and chances are there will be stars. The world will go right on no matter whether I succeed or fail. So I’m suddenly free in a world of amazing possibilities. I can try anything I want to try because nothing is really at stake. And all this stuff we get caught up in, the idea of prestige, money, people recognizing you on the street. All those things become pretty secondary.” - Rich Mullins

“Our faith may grow stronger over time, but the temptations never go away. It is hard to imagine that I will still feel tempted at 60, but when I was 20 I couldn’t imagine I would feel such strong temptations as I do at almost 40.” -Rich Mullins

“Sin is not something that is really good that God, for some reason, has something against. Sin is toxic. We dwell in the ruins of a disordered world, one in which sin has many defenders but no defense. Sin is destructive by its very nature, but it must mask itself in the beginning in order to lure us until we are cause by the bait of present or promised pleasures.”

“A single moment of pleasure can lead to a lifetime of pain.”

“God allows us to sin and, in fact, leaves us in our sin to break us of our vain affections and foolish pride. He does so in order to gather us back to Himself. Got allows us to sin until we have grown weary and in pain, and like the prodigal, we want to ‘grow young’ and come home.”

“... The legalistic approach to faith not only negates God’s grace but deprives Christians of learning how to be human, which involves being honest and real. Actually, the journey toward being authentically human is more difficult than the path of legalism...’I think it would be real easy to say, ‘I think what would really please God is if I don’t dance, I don’t chew, and I don’t go with girls who do.’ It’s much more difficult I think for me to become who I am and who He created me to be.”

“Growing into the person God created us to be...was the goal of the Christian life- Not trying to sin less, but to be God’s more.”

“...If we have to tell people we love them, we probably don’t.”